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Thanks! Really appreciate the comment. What would you say makes my content ideas different from others? Might help me work towards my strenghts.

Thanks for the advice! Do you grow a lot of wheat and such? 1. I think I still am a bit too impatient with the ripeness. 2. Last time I did it just like that! 3. I have bought myself an old "seed sorter" (not sure of a fitting english term for it) that I used for much of the seeds this year. I would like to add som other sized sieves to get more precision, but it works fine. I sort/clean my larger batches of wheat that I baked my bread from in it as well.

@@atmavan-sweden Interesting! That is quite a large difference. I might have semiwatch a video on him. Does he manage to grow year round? There is a lot more I could learn about wheat. My calculation was based to only eat wheat, and nothing else. Maybe for Alik it's not his main source of food? And maybe he can grow for longer, maybe several harvest in the same space. And I might have misscalculated 😅.

Thanks Albert! I really enjoyed that comment, even if it took me a while to actually formulate a response.

So that's what its called! Thanks a bunch!

Thanks a bunch! Means a lot to hear it.

Thank you! Love alla around!

Tack!

Thank you for those kind words, and for sharing! Sounds like a fun project with some unruly resources. Let me know how it goes! I live in the middle of Sweden (or actually it's way below the actual middle but it's usually called the middle). Never thought I lived in a landscape that looked like france! Now it feels more special. Were do you live?

Thänks!

Thanks! It is a enjoyable to reuse material. Did you make yours smaller? I have actually cut off a little from the lenght of mine, because I felt it was a bit unwieldy.

Det kanske kunde vara något! Jag har funderat lite på hur jag kan bygga en enkel och effektivare slända som väger mindre 🙂. Dock tror jag att jag är för otålig för att spinna singlar och sen spinna ihop. Det kanske är något jag får ta mig för när jag har en spinnrock, eller så 😆

@@hermansacres allt du egentligen behöver är en blompinne, lite fimo-lera och en krok 🙂

First one feels like a challenge! About the second question: because I have none, and it would be more difficult to build (I built the combs myself). I enjoy making things myself, and at least sometimes, to be real basic 😀.

Thanks! Harvesting grain is for sure more work than harvesting potatoes and if you want to do it with machines they are more complex and quite a lot bigger. I bought a combine harvester from the sixties a couple of years back and that is a large beast for just the small patch (and a tiny one when compare to modern machines), compare that to a potatoe harvester which can be quite small and with low tech. Would be really neat with a combine harvester for the the small patches. Something that's only a hundred kg, max. Fun! Be sure to let me know how it goes! Slice and dry it!? I can't recall I heard that method for storeing potatoes before. Can you cook them as usual? Do you need to soak them beforehand?

Thank you!

Well, I can tell you one thing for certain: You aint wrong! I have made two pairs, and one of them I kinda never use since it might need some more work to be working properly 😅.

@@hermansacres I'm sure you will get them working properly. Keep having fun with your blacksmithing! 👍😃

Thanks for the comment! Do you have any good recommendations?

There's been a lot of mention of the wire wheel, so maybe I ought to try it out! Thank you!

I used what I had at home which was a beard oil made from thistel, and I have no clue if that's appropriate or not. I am in a testing phase, so how different can oils be, hehe. It's a couple of months since I did they project and they still look nice so it can't have hurt 😅.

My understanding is that the vinegar loosens up the rust so thats its possible to get off with a brush

@@hydrophobic5851 Well let's see, I've been a mechanic for the last 40-years and you name it and I've worked on it and I've never soaked anything in vinegar in my life, it goes right to my wire-wheel or blasting cabinet

I find it a lot easier to remove rust if I soaked it first, but then I have only tried using just a wire brush and no blasting och wire-wheel. Maybe I should have said that vinegar helps to remove rust? 🙂.

Yeah. I guess the innovation we want is the one we make ourselves. I have seen a couple of small grain sorters built, and I am thinking of some time in the future building my on. It would be nice if it could harvest as well.

Darn! Then I am still far off. Any tips to get it that sharp? More time on the leather wheel?

@@hermansacres try going to a finer stone then go to leather

also sub komment, plz remember to leave it drying after harvesting for a while. also the method i use is a sickle so i kan bind them better, then after theyve dried to my liking, i would make realy realy small bundles, take my hands (id rekomend gloves) and rub the heads imbetween my hands into a bucket. if any of my komment was konfusing tell me and i kan try to establish kontakt to make myself more klear

I have since sowed in rows for some barley and I did like it. The orderly fashioned makes it easier to see where the crop is growing and where the weeds are. Good advice! When I have smaller amounts I too like to rub the heads when harvesting. It's an enjoyable activity to rest in.

Thanks Jay! I'm glad you like it! Are you growing wheat or similar as well, or thinking about it?

I plant wheat and oats for my deer food plots. I use no-til/regen/Organic (No pesticides or herbacides) methods as best I can. I've always just let them mature and left them for the birds and wildlife but I'm thinking about harvesting some this year for us@@hermansacres

Thanks a bunch! Sounds awesome, how do we do that? Facebook-group? A forum? I started to immediatly think about how we could share seeds from community based tree and plantbreeding, and getting people together to create more advanced open source projects, like diy dishwasher, or harvesting machine or whatever. It's fun to dream! Where are you based? How's your farm?

Glad you like it! Have you built one as well?

Wow, 14 years! You are a veteran! Maybe the internet is a nicer place than I assumed :). Thanks for those kind words John!

Never forgett!

Haha! Thanks for the contribution!

Hi! I don't read cryllic. Could you write it in the latin alphabet and in preferably english? :). To put it in swedish (and värmländska): Ja fatt int fråga.

Thanks John! Nice that two skills I value are showing! I'll be sure to check our your channel. You seem to be a problem solver yourself.

Thanks!

I think I stopped when they felt well established. Say +15 cm in height It was some time ago so I don't remember exact I'm afraid. This summer I did grow wheat without watering at all and that worked as well. Sweden did not have a lot of rain in the first half, and they weren't perfectly established but it did work.

Thanks Sandra! Are you growing wheat in your garden?

Thanks Andreas! I used lithium grease for no other reasone than that I had it laying around. I haven't tried beeswax yet, but I have seen that some wood workers use beeswax for the sole of planes so it should work just as nicely here.

Haha, tack för tipsen! Jag var lite orolig för att den skulle regna bort, men den har hittills klarat sig väldigt bra. Den nya jorden var lite mer sandig. Sen räknar jag med att i framtiden behöva lyfta byggnaden i något hörn om jag vill ha det rakt :). Smart! Nu när du säger det så har jag faktiskt sett det, men jag tänkte inte på att jag kunde göra det här. Haha, japp, jag håller helt med! Jag lär mig nämligen det lite allt eftersom, hehe.

I would use a larger fan and one design to push the air (I'm assuming that the efficiency could differ from the design even if the power of the fans are the same). I would avoid, if possible, the use of heat since heat above 35 degress celsius can damage seeds. If I would use it for food or feed then I guess that wouldn't be an issue, but I would probably avoid it all the same. Feels like an added thing that can malfunction 😅. I think that large grainsilos only use air but I'm not sure. Do you know?

Well depend here where i live in Canada if they harvest soy or corn in the late fall it's usually wet so they add a propane and a heating unit to the whole fan set up. Myself i am like you no big acreage and i have a small by current standard combine. I was planning to make small grains too and i am looking at different homemade dryers. Especially since i want to add buckwheat to my rotation but it will require probably some heat to dry it before it spoil. I will try something next year similar to your idea.

@@thirrybelisle All right! Sounds fun! I am looking forward to next growing season to right some wrongs and hopefully get a good harvest this time. Sounds like an exciting next growing season for you and I would love to hear how it goes and your thoughts on whatever dryer you build :).

Can I get a what what?!

That's what I thought too when I saw it the first time 😀.

It's really fun to do!